How to manage your entire social media life on your mobile phone: Android edition

Warning: Do not read this post if you want to keep your ‘real life’ friends.

Long gone are the days where you need a laptop of desktop to mange your social networks. In fact, thanks to the developments in smart phones, you can set up, manage and use each of your social profiles on the move.

The ‘supporting’ cast

Facebook Messenger – If you want to take your Facebook chat function with you, then this is the app for you. It tells you who’s online and allows you to carry out instant chats from the palm of your hand. Nice eh?

TwitPlus – addon for Twitter – This should probably be called ‘Twitter on Steroids’. This adds things like ‘odd style retweet’ and other functionality not available in the native Twitter mobile app.

All-in-one solutions

Of course, if you don’t want to have a million separate apps you can download one of the many cross-platform services. The best of these include: Hootsuite, TweetDeck, Seesmic, UberSocial (although this last one is more a Twitter-specific app).

Time to show off

As readers of The Next Web, we expect you to be familiar with most of these apps. Now it’s time to show you some stuff that’ll really impress your friends. The hottest social apps and games doing the rounds at the moment include:

Pinterest hasn’t released an official app yet, but you can always download Pin’d.

We haven’t really talked much about video yet, and there’s more to life than just YouTube mobile. The best of the bunch is an app called SocialCam from Justin.tv which allows easy video sharing with your friends.

Useful utilities

If you want to manage your online life from your mobile, there are some great socially-inspired apps to choose from too, including: